Leslie Gonda

Leslie Gonda (August 20, 1919 – March 16, 2018) was a Hungarian-born American businessman, philanthropist, and Holocaust survivor.

[3] In 1945, Gonda moved to Venezuela, beginning a local wares business which expanded into real estate and construction.

[citation needed] In 1963, he moved to Los Angeles, United States[2] and started International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) with his son Louis as well as his friend Steven Udvar-Hazy.

He made large donations to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where the Gonda building is named after him.

He donated to the City of Hope Cancer Center and is known for his generosity in giving gold coins to his employees' children.

The Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University building (2011)